Ill
YANKS SINE
i "
A
MA
ITQUVU
iiii
... mlNK JENKINS
..iu loilnv la in ixi'd.
Ton II'0 western front, wh;
Cuiter-offensive, It clou
HnV I I.ltlln (luf n tit
&" w,lnK ,,hrou
f".r.r' ..,.. from Mlndoro.
L IhlH)'l',i l o GOOD
fv-M L'i III! fliir tl'mii
ru.r,.',.i -. n... I.....M,
Lachi'H '' uro '"ln,, "''"'"l
Without Krountl rcslatnncu from
L.il-cit urn tho unsettling
cle-
J vclopniciitii 111 UulKlum:
1 I C0IH)ll!l0 OMCKIJUl 01
V Tl. ...., Thin is tho see
of-
onel
fin" 7i. 1....7..I7,., n.ni ....
times'"11- ""k, "v"
I NFAVOIIAULE to our side tins
t,n iilHrf.icti. Tho first wns
WS
t AKNIIKM. where wo trlci
boldly nnu iniicu.
J j The Gerinwis hnvo gnlnei
from i" " ,,7,
imorknii ll urmy.' '1 hey neon
ft bo trying to el wound iul
W roar lit Michon.
,J j 'jhey i"" using -nclr lu'v
-Weapon henvlly ngiilnst on
j. . -.,.1 nil. i.rmlf.N. niwl wi
ircn't permitted yet to know
i i II tat 1 1 If l
Iv-vM the 1100(1 MKIC, II1C 1111.
1) .i.,r.rr..nlii 1IASN
f.frtltvcd our STEADY PHES-
SURE on the "no oi uiu iuilt
r. ilri.lu i.ri. I'rnmtiI
ffm'M V "rwR t . hiu
Rtrly defended Duron, on the
;AST oaiiK.
we were gravciy inrcnicucu
would be PULLING BACK on
he Itoer instead oi pusuiug
ahead. . . .
j.i SWEDISH newspaper enters
the plcturo loony wun
t iwmM r:irimuw
J lory I...... h,.j... . jj .
fl. .Inrv minion 1 lilt Von
fl ll.l.- ""...
'.Jtundttcrit ut lirst roiuscu 10 or
jk.i it .un.tlrl meiin conimlttlni
:ii nnrmnn forces In the west
Including reserves, to mo dhuu
and so would oc loo risny.
t t u u...,tlli m.wsnnncr
t ' : : . 11,;
iourcf.f iiiiuiiiHiwu -J-
.,,. Iupd hv 1IIMMLER
UaddinK Hint It wns wioeiy nuo-
llshcd msuio ucrmnny inm
litlt (liu ii. . . 7 .
f Von Rundstcdt Is snld to be
diuollslleici Willi proiirviu "
becauso the offensive lins been
T00 COSTLY In Gorninn ro-
J"'"1 .
.VOU'D better keep your f inifcrs
STRICTLY crossed, but If
tho Jlory tins any louiiauiiun
k I , l ll.n nn ml
IF the offensive wns ordered
'of his Kenerul In tho field, It Is
desperate venture akin -to the
hu h mm ,.p nunin.it l ie huvivu
Jao "Diinrni cnargo.
S IP I'P PA If C
I Well, if It fnlls,, utterly and
Aloodilv. it will be Uic end of
nail Germany.
i ... .
frTS linrd to wnlt for news, oui
I . n,..cl Whlln vvn'rn wnitilllt
It will bo well to remember that
fit hnvo millions of Uic worm a
jbravest and best In western
Surnne. well COU IlllCd anU
ABLY led.
TIIE Russians nro plnclilnn oft
1 Ihn Innn Ihln Ctr.rninil flllUcr
jthal thrusts' castwnrd Into Slo
vakia, brhiRliiK their lines up
-rvn nnrl 1 nnrl ttnulll OL J1UUH
Jpcst. .
I
THE news from tho Philip-
AP rnrrnuiinnrlnTil Wllltc. Oil
jMlndoro, snys: "Tho Japs have
lUonllnucd on fngo iwo
Retred Farmer
Kidnapped in
Grants Pass
GRANTS PASS. Dec. 10 (P)
'A .1 11... , .in !...,! r,.H,n nf
Jiaklmn, visiting here, tele-
P'oncd the ntntc police last night
had been kldnnncd In his
0Wn niltn nnrl rnhherl nf $l.ri(l nt
JJlie point of n gun by two hitch
hikers ho hnd picked up on his
iy irotn urcsconi Ulty, uniu.,
urnnus i'nss.
An hour Inter, thn nollce hnd
"rrcslcd Gnnrgo Vincent Flynn,
ui mo xoungvine, uniu., voi-
frailS hnmn nt n -r.,i Mnftr nnrl
Kjwrtiy afterward picked up Do
K""iK San Gnbrlcl, riliplno
"ward, at n locnl reslnurnnt
"Iter he hnd purchased n bus
"CKOt for Renllln Pnllro Ser-
""H Jiimro Mnu r nu n rl lint 1
fi ",'lmlltp" they hnd held up
I 'uuoen Hnys and had driven
i'Hm nvnr .nln..n ..nnrl
Ith Flyim nt tho wheel seeking
SHOPPING-
r
Iaal
Herald anb litr
PKICE 5 CENTS
IUI
euvel Crested on ..Morals' (Dbr
B-23S POUND
Ground Troops Meet
No Resistance
On Mindorc
S By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Aaaoclntod Proaa War Editor
Suncrforts smashed nunln to.
day nt Jnpnncsc factories in a
doublc-educd bombing campaign
to cliininatc the source of Jupn
nesc planes that have been
pouring In nn unending strewn
into the Philippines, where 742
were khocrcu out Inst week.
Amerlcnn ground forces ad
vnnccd on Mlndoro Island of
tho central Philippines in sharp
contrast to fierce fighting on
Leylc. Gen. Douglns MacArthur
announced the Japanese 20th
envision has been annihilated
in a crushing Yank vise on
Lcyte and the U. S. 77lh divi
sion has seized nn airport near
valcnclu In the center ot oioooy
Ormoc valley.
Kyuahu Bombed
Dozens of Suporforts sweep
ing nut of western ulilna oomb
cd Kyushu island Industries in
southern Jiipnn today. Official
Tokyo reported yioy struck at
Omura, whose aircraft factory
has been the objcctlvo of inrca
previous rinds.
An imperiul communique snld
between 30 nnd 40 B-20s.made
the nttnek on the heels of a dou
bio blow yesterday by nearly
200 Suporforts against Hankow
nnd the Mitsubishi Aircraft
company's big Kokukl aircraft
plant at Nagoya on iionsnu is
land. The U. S. war department de
scribed today's attacking waves
(Continued on Pago Two)
Tl
LONDON, Dec. 19 (IF) The
house of commons will hold a
special debate on Grccco to
morrow, with Prime Minister
Churchill expected to speak
This was announced tonight
several hours after Churchill
had sidetracked a new effort In
commons to gel his comments
of the Greek situation, uiurcn
III refused nlso to give a full
scnlc review of the wnr.
Dnmand Debut
Cnblnct ministers agreed to
tomorrow's debate after a com
mittee ot the labor party sub
mitted a formal demnna.
In commons lodny Churchill
un. furred nto a hoMcmneroa
defense of British troops' inter.
volition In Belgium.
"We were acting under Amcr
(Continued on Pngo Two)
26 Sentenced
In Court Martial
cr-ATITl? TW 10 Twen-
... .i onirl tr Indnv faced
u.ya.A - v -
federal prison sentences iiki"k
lruui uiu.' .u fj t.......,
-uin riiohni-iip nnd forfeiture of
all pay nnd nllownnces as a re
sult of a court ninruui a iiiuumk
Hint thev pnrtlcipnted In a riot
n,.nir..i rnrmnr Itnlinn prisoners
of wnr nt ion i,awioii iasi au
gust
The military court passed the
.n.rt..no unglnrrlllV nfter filld-
Ing three of the defendants In
f ximi-uxa Hint thev mur
dered Pvt. Gugllchno Ollvotto,
whose body was found hanging
In n nenrbv gully the morning
after the riot.
These three defendants, how-
.-.oolund Ihn stlffcst SCI1-
Icnccs passed out by the court.
Two ot mo mrcc,
t ..i,i on iioW'iin. Ark., nnd
n..t iillllnt.i n. .Tnnns. 20. Dc-
CHtiir, 111. woro convicted of a
reduced ennrgo oi mniiuiuK".-
I .n..ln..nnrl In 1H nild 15
....... -no..nniiunlv The third de
fendant, St. Arthur J. Hurks,
Houston, TCX., was nrara-
12 years on tho rioting con
viction. . ,
Tho major portion of tho sen
tences were for eight and 10
JAP PLANTS;
CI'S ADVANCE
InTJutShaHta-Caseade
'i Spi'
" Smoke pours from more than 40 direct. oomb. hlta on the Mitsubishi aircraft plant at Nayoya, Japan, during the December 13
(Tokyo time) raid by Saipan-baaed Superforts (B-29i). This fira t Nagoya bombing raid picture was received by RCA radiophoto
from Honolulu. (AP wirophoto from 20th air force via RCA ra diophoto).
James Fitzgerald, 57-year-old
Ewnunn employe, suffered fatal
injuries early Tuesday morning
as ho reportedly stepped in the
path of a car operated by En
sign G. B. Law, Klamath naval
air station, 203 Cascade 'apart
ments. The accident occurred at 7:53
a. in. at 6tli and Market, and Mr.
Fitzgerald expired at Hillside
hospital at 11:35 a. m. Dr.
George H. Adlcr, Klamnlh coun
ty coroner, said Mr. Fitzgerald
suffered a probable skull frac
ture, compound fracture of the
lower left leg, broken ribs, and
Internal hurls. The body is at
Whitlock's.
According to investigating
city police, Mr. Fitzgerald step
ped from behind a parked car
as ho was on his way to work
at Ewauna where he has been
employed for Hie past two years
as a glue mixer. The Fitzgerald
family resides nt 511 S. 8th.
No chnrgo had been filed
against Ensign Law nt a late
hour Tuesday.
British Report Captives
Of Japs Treated Brutally
LONDON. Dec. 19 W) The
British war office asserted today
that tho Jnpnncsc had worked
more than 60,000 white captives
under such brulnl and Inhuman
conditions that 24,000 of them
had died. ,
The Japnneso themselves hnvo
erected a memorial to 25,000
men who died in building the
Thailand-Burnin railway and
rond, the war office snid. Of
the 25,000 men, the wnr office
reported, fewer than louu were
Jnps. The remainder were Eng
lish, Austrnnnns nnu uuicn.
Urnont Work
In nn urge for speed, the Jap
anese disregarded completely
the cost In human lite, tnc
war office said, Sick, prisoners
were even carried to work on
stretchers. Severo beatings were
administered to officers nnd
men, the statement snld, and
there were nlso cases "of tor
ture and killing."
The statement supplemented
an oral report to commons by
Sir James Grlgg, war secretary,
who said the Japanese used at
lonst 00,000 white prisoners "re
gardless of conditions under
which the prisoners worked and
of the cost In human life."
Grlgg reported conditions im
proved somewhat after comple
tion oi wc rauroaa in ucioucr,
1943, but he said: .
'1 snouia tnaite it cicar to
Wonderland
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1944
Superforts Blost Aircraft Plant At Nagoya, Japan
Land Exchange Protested
By Klamath County Court
Klamath county court today
filed a protest with the district
land office against a proposed
land exchange transaction be
tween the national forest service
and the Shcvlin-Hixon Lumber
company of Bend.
The land involved is a large
acreage of timber land in .the
northern part o Klamath coun
ty, now held privately by Shev-lin-Hixon
company, which has
been logging on the tract. Shcvlin-Hixon
has offered it to the
forest service, in exchange for
an equal value of timber from
lands in the Fremont and Des
chutes national forests in Klam
ath and Lake counties.
If the transaction Is complet
ed, the Shevlin-Hixon land will
go into national forest owner
ship and will bo removed from
the tax rolls of Klamath coun
ty. County court members said
that 48,000 acres of Klamath
county land has already been
transferred -to national forest
ownership in this manner.
In legal notices published in
The Herald nnd News, Clarence
W. Ogle, Lakeviow, register of
the house that these conditions
arc fnr below anything which
could be regarded as reasonable
for our prisoners of war in Eu
rope." "Men have, however, adapted
themselves and become to some
extent inured to these lower
standnrds while many of the con
ditions which caused such heavy
sick nnd death rntcs in jungle
camps did not obtain In rear
camps to which the men were
withdrawn."
Griggs snld his report was
confirmed by British troops for
merly in Japanese hands. The
U. S. navy rescued these troops
from the sea In September.
Strong Protest Asked
Grlgg said tho protecting pow
er had been asked to make the
"strongest possible protest re
garding past conditions in Slam
(Thailand) and Burma" and said
Britain would continue to press
the Jnpnncsc to allow all prison
camps to be inspected rcgulnrly
by neutral observers nnd to
mnkc arrangements . for Red
Cross relief supplies.
All the prisoners travolod
from Singapore to Thailand in
metnl cattle trucks so crowded
that the men could not lie down
for five days and nights, and
were forced to sleep leaning
agoinst piles of equipment or
ngninst one another, the war of
fice said.
the district land office, named
December 23 as the deadline
for protests. It is presumed a
protest will hold up the ex
change while the protectants'
objections are considered.
Grounds For Protest
The court's protests were
based on the following grounds:
1. Contemplated exchange of
lands materially effects tax base
of Klamath county by attempt
ing to place title to these lands
on a tax-free agency.
2. No means or agreement
has been proposed to effect the
payment to protestant of legally
required payment of 25 per
cent.
3. Klamath county has never
consented to such exchange of
lands.
4. Applicant's retaining right
to enter proposed exchange
lands to harvest present timber
crop until December 31, 1949,
together with right to enter said
lands to remove logs until June
30, -1950, is an attempt by the
regional forester to grant to ap
plicants indirectly a right to
own timber within state of Ore
gon in a free of tax status.
5. Oregon state timber com
mission has never consented to
exchange of lands.
6. The United States owns
and holds tax-free a dispropor
tionate area of Klamath county
placing undue and unjust tax
burden upon taxpayers of this
county.
7. The application is a furth
er step of the U. S. entering
into private business in compe
tition with private timber grow
ing interests, and upon tax-free
lands.
Reds Swarm Over
Slovak Frontier
LONDON, Dec. 19 (A) Red
army troops swarmed across the
Czechoslovak frontier from
northeastern Hungary today on
a widening front, threatening
early collapse of the entire Ger
man salient in eastern Slovnkia
between Poland and Hungary.
Driving down out of the Kec
skc mountains, Marshal Rodion
Y. Malinovsky's second Ukrain
inn army units gained up to 12
miles and poured into the broad
Bodva and Hcrnnd river valleys
leading to Kassa, the enemy's
major cast Slovak stronghold.
By yesterday, Moscow snld,
one of Malinovsky's columns
already was within two miles
of the Germans' southern high
way escape route out of Kassa.
Once it is cut the garrison in
Hungarian-annexed Kassa would
be able to flee only through the
patriot Infested Czechoslovak
mountains.
December 19, JOIt
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I'reclpitatton lait 21 boura .......-.
Hlream year to dale ...
No'tnil 3.89 tut year
forecast Light bower.
Wedneiday Sbootlnc Hoora
Oreroni On en 1-JiS Cln .....
Tulelakc: Open
'Bv JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Pi
The senate broke a two-week
deadlock over six diplomatic ap
pointments today by confirming
President Roosevelt's nomination
of Joseph C. Grew to be under
secretary of state.
Grew, former ambassador to
Japan, won approval on a 66 to
7 vote. This action cleared the
way for subsequent roll calls on
(Continued on Page Five)
Huge Balloon Armed With
Bomb Found in Montana
KALISPELL, Mont., Dec. 19
(P) A huge paper balloon, bear
ing Japanese ideographs and
armed with an incendiary bomb
capable of starting a major con
flagration in this northwest tim
ber empire, has been found 17
miles southwest of Kalispell,
the federal bureau of investiga
tion said last night.
Announcement of the strange
device, camouflaged blue and
cream color, was permitted a
week after Owen Hill and his
father, O. B. Hill, found it while
on a wood-cutting trip.
Silent Citizens
Although more than 500 resi
dents saw tl i balloon, which
landed in a region sometimes
swept by forest fires, they heed
ed a warning to refrain from
talking of it.
L. D. Spafford, Kalispell pub
lisher, said "everybody was
mighty interested, but when the
federal bureau of Investigation
warned not to discuss it, the
whole town clammed up."
"There are too many people
with sons and husbands in the
service to take a chance on per
haps giving out valuable infor
mation to the enemy."
475 Air-Miles
Ward Bannister, in charge of
Montana-Idaho FBI offices, com
mented that prevailing winds on
the west coast recently hnve
been from the west or northwest.
Free balloons, he added, are
known to travel as fast as 200
miles an hour in swift, high-air
currents. Air mile distance trom
Cape Flattery on the northwest
Pacific coast to Kalispell, is 473
miles.
He did not comment on the
probable purpose of tho balloon,
nor Its point of release, but snid
it w.is a "free balloon, capable of
making only one flight" and that
It was not a weather balloon.
Effective Camouflage
Bannister described the bal
loon coloring., as "an effective
camouflage color." It was 331
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Number 10342
Complaint Signed
16-Year-Old
Girl
by
Police Chief Earl Heuvel of
Klamath Falls was free on $1000
cash bond today after his arrest
on a charge of contributing to
the delinquency of a minor girl.
Heuvel submitted to the for
malities of arrest at the office
of Justice of the Peace Joseph
Mahoney yesterday afternoon,
after a complaint, signed by a
16-year-old girl, had been filed
with Mahoney.
The complaint charges Heuvel
with an illegal act on October 5,
1944, when the girl was 15 years
of age.
Chief Denies .
After his brief appearance at
Justice Mahoney's office, Heu
vel commented:
"The accusation is false."
He declined to make a further
statement to the press then and
on Tuesday, He appeared at
council meeting Monday night in
his customary routine duties as
chief, and no mention of the
criminal charges occurred" at
council session. -
To Ask Hearing
The police chief was accom
panied to Justic Mahoney's of
fice by J. C. O'Neill, local attor
ney, who stated Tuesday that he
will ask for a preliminary hear
ing in justice court for Heuvel.
It will then be Mahoney's duty
to - determine whether Heuvel
shall be bound over to the grand
jury, which would return either
an indictment or a not true bill.
If indicted, the case presumably
would be set for trial. A not
true bill would free the defend
ant. District Attorney L. Orth
Sisemore, who conducted an in
vestigation which preceded Heu
vel's arrest, said that the charges
against the chief are based on al
leged circumstances beginning
in early October.
Witness Arrested
At that time, Margaret Collins,
24, and her younger sister, the
complaining witness in the pre
(Continued on Page Two)
feet in diameter, and armed
with a six-inch bomb containing
"aluminum and some oxide."
A 70-foot fuse had ignited,
then sputtered out without caus
ing any damage.
Bannister said the Japanese
ideographs stated date of manu
facture and inspection, and that
the balloon was "high quality
paper," treated with varnish.
The incendiary device, he
added, apparently had been
fixed so as to consume the balloon.
ge
IMF DEIS
AbCUSATON
POSTS BOND
Norden Company Indicted
On Charges of Conspiracy
1 NEW YORK, Dec. 19 OT A
special federal grand jury today
indicted Carl L. Norden, Inc.,
bombsight manufacturers, and a
war plant survey firm and four
individuals on charges of con
spiracy to slow down produc
tion of the war-vital Norden
bombsights. '
The indictments also charged
a conspiracy aimed at forcing
makers of war goods to employ
the survey company, Corrigan,
Osburne and Wells, Inc.,- spe
cialists in the installations of
production control systems for
Industrial concerns.
Individuals named were Theo
dore H. Barth, president, and
Ward E. Marvellc, vice presi'
dent of the Norden company;
Navy Cmdr. John D. Corrigan
as head of the survey firm, and
Robert H. Wells, vice president
of the concern.
Two Indictments
One indictment named the
Norden company, of New York;
the survey concern, with offices
in New York and Chicago, and
Barth, Marvelle, Corrigan and
Wells. The other named Corri
gan, Wells and their firm.
Y PATROLS
GROSS
ENTERDUREiV
Counterblow Slices
20 Miles Into
Belgium
By JAMES M. LONG ;
PARIS, Dec. 19 (JPj 'Ameri
can doughboys and tanks struck -back
today at the German ar
mor - powered counteroff ensiveJ
that had cut 20 miles into Bel-"
gium, while to the north first'
army patrols crossed the Roer
river barrier into Duren.
American blows to stabilize'
the front were thrown in as the
bold nazi push probed into Bel--gium
and Luxembourg on a 60
mile front.
The first army maintained
pressure on the Cologne front
despite the menacing counter--offensive.
Just before noon yes
terday, patrols of the 83rd divi
sion's 329th regiment crnasprf
Jhe formidable Roer river and
pusnea inio uuren, stronghold
city 20 miles from Cologne,
Security Silence
Supreme headquarters im-
posed security silence on the.
powerful German counteroffen-;,
sive, but a first army dispatch,
said one German tank thrust be-"
low Manchau "had some success
in a frontal push" with the Ger
mans being contained on some.,
sectors.
The Germans were striking'
from above Manschau to near;
Echternach. The deep plunge1
into Belgium carried a broad
flanking threat to Aachen. The'
German onslaught was powered
by massed reserves and support.
ed by a new vengeance weaponn
of an undisclosed type. Supreme
headquarters was silent on de
tails of the battle. v
Four fathers, vigorously pro
testing activities of members of
the .city police department,
whom they said picked up a
group of high school students,
December 8, and took them to
the city jail as the party was en
route home from a high school
dance, appeared before the city
council Monday night to. ex
press their -opinions on the in
terpretation of the curfew law.
: Fred BRobinson, 1160 Cres
cent, was' spokesman for the
group and read a letter to the
editor which appeared in The
Herald and News under the date
of December 14 and signed by
Mrs. Dollie Peery. The letter
also protested action of the po
lice, and Robinson said he invesr
tigated and found that Mrs.
Peery had "not underestimated
the situation."
Waiting for Bu
Robinson then told the police
that the youngsters, girls dressed
in formats, had left the dance to
take the bus home and were
waiting at 9th and Main when
officers loaded the group into
the paddy wagon and took them
to the police station. They were
then turned over to juvenile au
thorities including Harold Hen
dricksbn, county juvenile offi
cer, and Faye Lucas, his deputy.
The children were later re
leased and left to get home to
the best of their ability, Robin
son said. The girls finally con
tacted a sister of one of the
group and reached home at 1:30
a. m. The boys pooled their re
sources and hired a cab to get
home. All lived in the subur
ban areas, three to four miles
from town. Robinson said that
when the children asked how
they were to get home at that
(Continued on Page Two)
Assistant U. S. Attorney Gen
eral Hugh O'Donnell said after
the indictments were filed that
Carl L. Norden, inventor of the
bombsight and former president
of the company, was in no way
involved in the case and was no
longer associated with the Nor
den firm. '
Conapiracy Charge
The first true bill . accused
the defendants with conspiring
in New York, Washington and
Elmira, N. Y., to endeavor cor
ruptly to influence, impede and
defeat the administration by
the navy department of its law
ful function to supervise pro
duction by Remington Rand,
Inc., of Elmira, of Norden
bombsights under subcontract
with the Norden company,
' The second indictment con
tained the same charge and also
accused Corrigan of ; conceal
ment, while a civilian employe
of the navy and later as a com
missioned officer, of his pecuni
ary interest in his company and
his alleged filing of false and
misleading reports to) the navy
concerning official surveys of
war pla.its made By him.
Pi
!
years.